Vidya Balan to romance Rajinikanth

Her simple girl-next-door image along with her sensuous eyes and lovely smile has taken Bollywood by storm. Vidya Balan, desi beauty does not need to shed clothes or attain an ultra slim figure to get viewer’s attention. She is liked by one and all, and unambiguously this Lalita of “Parineeta”, is one of the finest actresses of today. Recently she has debuted in the Malayalam film industry with Santosh Sivan’s movie “Urumi” opposite Prithviraj. Now, superstar Rajnikanth has chosen her to be his love interest in “Rana”. Rajnikanth has got triple roles in the movie, and Vidya will be romancing the midlle aged Rajnikanth. Other B-town hotties like Deepika and Rekha will also be playing Rajnikanth’s muse in his youth and old age respectively. The film is directed by K.S.Ravikumar. Scheduled to be released on this April, this movie is produced by Ocher Picture Productions and Eros International.

Years back, while she was doing her masters from Mumbai University, Vidya was chosen for “Chakram” a Malayalam film opposite Mohanlal, but unfortunately, the project shelved soon after. Now, this graceful lady is back again in the South film industry, to stun the audience with her grace and talents.

We need to wait sometime to get triple dose of the entertainment named “Rana”.

Madhuri Dixit denies Rajinikanth's Rana

Ever since ‘dhak dhak’ girl Madhuri Dixit landed in India, Bollywood fell an instant prey to her charms, who flew in from the US to judge ‘Jhalak Dikhla Jaa’. Apparently, the Khans and Kapoors are dying to work with the lady and the latest entrant to the list of Madhuri lovers in none other than Tamil megastar Rajinikanth. Rumour zone suggest that Rajinikanth recently called up Madhuri to be a part of his upcoming project ‘Rana’, which the actress politely turned down. Said a source, “Besides casting Deepika Padukone and Sonu Sood from Mumbai, Rajni Sir was also keen to have Madhuri Dixit in ‘Rana’. However she turned down the offer. She excused herself saying that she was missing her sons Arin and Raayan too much and wanted to fly back to the United States.”

In ‘Rana’, Rajinikanth will be seen in a triple role. Madhuri was about to be cast opposite one of the older characters that Rajinikanth is playing; while Deepika will be romancing a much younger character.

Madhuri Dixit and Rajinikanth were last seen in ‘Uttar Dakshin’ (1987).

Rajnikanth to be directed by daughter Saundarya

South Superstar Rajnikanth is set to star in a live action role in a mega budget animation film- Sultan The Warrior, to be directed by his daughter, Saundarya.

At 2 billion rupees, it is the most expensive animated movie ever to be produced in India and is being produced by Soundarya’s Ocher Studios. Dad Rajnikanth must be doubly proud to star in a movie directed and produced by his daughter.

Telugu actress Ileana has been signed opposite him in the live action sequences. The movie is getting a buzz unusual for animated movies thanks to the Rajnikanth brand name attached to it. Apart from that, Ocher is collaborating with Adlabs for this movie. The music for the film has been scored by AR Rahman and the graphics and visual effects have been done by Soundarya’s team at Ocher.

And now Ocher studios has also tied up with Warner Bros for producing live action films.” They’re a great team; you know there’s nothing more I can say about Warner Bros that people don’t already know. We have tied up an exclusive agreement deal that we’ll produce live action films for them. We’re producing South Indian films to begin with, but soon we’ll move on to the North Indian market as well. It’s an exclusive agreement that we have happening,” says Saundarya.

Saundarya has done a cameo in her father’s bumper movie Kuselan. But she is keener to be behind the camera than in front of it these days.

Rajinikanth and Kamal Haasan come face to face

Kamal Haasan's mega project Dasavatharam has opened across cinema halls and the film is being talked about, as it's the first time ever in the history of cinema that an actor would be seen in 10 different roles.

A special screening of this Tamil flick was held in Chennai and present at this screening was none another than superstar Rajinikanth. Needless to say, both Rajini and Kamal are considered as Demi-Gods down South and enjoy a tremendous fan following. So what was “Sivaji- The Boss”' reaction to his colleague's film. According to sources, Rajini was simply bowled over by the film and termed it as 'extraordinary'. With praises coming from none other than Rajini Sir himself, Kamal Haasan must be feeling all the more thrilled.

The magnum-opus which also stars Mallika Sherawat, Asin and Jaya Prada is directed by noted filmmaker K.S.Ravikumar. Bollywood's ace composer Himesh Reshammiya has given the music for this film which is being released with a record number of prints in India.